Hi there Perfume Posse! Summer is upon you in the Northern Hemisphere. Costume National doesn’t seem to get a lot of blog time. I am not sure why, their bottle aesthetic is fun, easy to use and different. Fragrances are only a little off mainstream, quirks rather than confrontation. So Nude is an excellent example of their work. As you can see I’m currently using the roller ball but I have a bottle stashed somewhere too.

So Nude by Costume National 2012

Dominique Ropion

Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Cumin, cardamom, neroli
Heart: Damascus rose, tuberose, ylang-ylang
Base: Indonesian patchouli, Virginian cedar

What will you smell? Fresh downy-soft white flower with a slight skin-ish bent (that could be the cumin) but this skin is freshly showered. The tuberose and ylang together are fatty, green, milky and buttery but reading that makes them sound full and luscious but they are neither, no one will be skunked by you wearing So Nude. It is quiet, sillage is very conservative as is the scent bubble, if you leave the room with So Nude sprayed on a card, close the door, make a coffee elsewhere and then come back you will smell a clean/fresh/fragrant vibe but it’s not a room filler.

The heart is very pretty, and this is where you get a little voluptuous, ripe, sexiness but it is restrained sexy, not an open invitation. So Nude is a grown up, luxe version of some of the drugstore white flowers that are so pretty, simple, wearable and popular. Dry down is all creamy white flower on me, it is soft and quite pretty with just a smidge of woodiness.

So Nude would be a sensational Wedding Scent, excellent for almost everything and even wearable to a non frag phobic office. A surprising contrast when worn by men, unexpected and luscious. I get quite good life out of it too, 4-6 fragrant hours depending…

Are you wearing any white florals this summer?

Portia xx

Portia also writes for Australian Perfume Junkies